One of the rituals of Kansas City Chiefs training camp is a press availability with Clark Hunt — one in which the team owner expresses confidence in the team for the coming season.
Speaking to the media in the 2019 edition of the press conference on Saturday, Hunt was asked if getting to the AFC championship game in 2018 had made him more optimistic than usual.
“It sure does,” Hunt replied. “Obviously, being as close as we were to the Super Bowl last year — and in Andy’s Reid’s words, ‘coming up four inches short’.